Thursday, 21 January 2010

Inspiration Windowsill

Today I just wanted to post some pretty pictures. After yesterday with the loss of one of my chickens I feel down.

I sat at the computer to trawl the internet for rules governing selling your own handmade soaps, it's a veritable minefield of regulations, my brain was spinning, so I fired off emails to try to clarify things and spoke to various people on the phone (who all tell slightly conflicting tales), I'm no clearer now than when I began. Is there anybody out there who can simplify it for me?

I tried to do my accounts (woohoo I'm up to July 2009 now!) but the brain was not in gear, so I tidied my workroom (well hid everything in the cupboards) and wiped down the windowsill. I tend to put things on there to give me inspiration......well it's not working. I haven't made a single thing this week.

The trouble with crafting is that you have to be inspired to begin. If you just sit down and try to do it, it won't work, well not for me anyway.
If anyone has seen my crafting mojo, please send her back to me, she seems to have gone on holiday (somewhere warm and sunny I hope) lucky thing!
Sue xx

Hello dear,sorry your crafty mojo left. I found a fun crafty blog that made me craft crazy, www.howdoesshe.com. Currently making burp cloths for a cousin's baby. There are lots of fresh ideas. I think up next for me is the interchangeable jeweled watch band. What are you in the mood to craft? Would love to know. Chin up,and HUGS!!!

Oh Sue, the dreaded crafting Mojo disappearance, I am sure it will return just when you least expect it and more than likely when you have the smallest amount of crafting time available!

I have been doing exactly the same thing this week with regards to soap regulations and the only thing I have discovered is that it costs £150 to get a certificate to sell soap and another £150 to be allowed to sell bath salts and another £150........ and so it goes on. If you find anything further, I'd be interested to know too! I'll email you with links that I have found.

Your windowsill looks lovely, your crafting mojo is clearly still there, just not manifesting itself in the way you want it to.Enjoy your weekendSarah x

This is my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life on a hillside in North Wales. Along with our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang ... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It is simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... over nine years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, the occasional grass munching sheep ... and some pretty delicious vegan foods ... oh did I mention that I don't actually eat the eggs!!

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